'grow your own' on Serious Eats

Could your living room be the next buzzed-about coffee origin? Well, you'd have to buy a lot of these delightful Grow Your Own Coffee kits to produce anything near enough beans to make a splash, but it's still fun to think of yourself as a kind of armchair Juan Valdez. More

Buy a shiitake mushroom log, keep it in a cool, dark place, and you'll have your own crop of shiitake mushrooms in ten days. They say the log can produce a new crop every 8 to 12 weeks for a few years. That's a lot of tasty mushrooms! $29.95 at Wine Enthusiast. [via Tastespotting]... More